ethan ded dat tabbee dares oe ak =, and large responsible TERRACE daily heraid /RITIMAT General Office . 635-6357 Circulation - 635-6357 Authorized as 5econd class 1901. Postage paid in cash, PUBLISHER - Laurie Mallett GEN. MANAGER. Knox Couptand EDITOR - Greg Middleton CIRCULATION. TERRACE. Andy Wightman 435-6337 KITIMAT - Pat Zelinski KITIMAT OFFICE - 632.2707 . Published every weekday at 3212 Kalury Street, Terrace, B.C. A member of Varified Circulation, NOTE OF COPYRIGHT The Herald retains full, compiete and sole copyright in any advertisement produced and-or any editorial or photographic content published in the Herald. Reproduction is nal permilted without the written permission of the Publisher. Published by Sterling Publishers 632-2747 mall, Registration number return postage guaranteed. EDITOR'S By Greg Middieton JOURNAL It was a wild night, and there was a con- siderable arnount of game around. Before anyone thinks this is goinsy to be an x-rated column, I’ra speaking of the Terrace Rod and Gun Club annual About 200 adventurous the Lakelse tel delights prepar Few if any were deterred the club of any responsibilty for are. doeuvre table was a effects caused by the Gracing the hors wild gaine banquet. bodies turned out to Hotel to (ry various culinary chef Gary Karamercr. by the sign absolving any side a SORA SON N salmon wearing a striped jacket and a whole, baked beaver, head mouth, After an and all, with a stick in its - introductory speech in which assembly were warned that no, & live mse wasn't going to be let loose in the hall, and yes, everything \Wwas dead, the club members and nen members alike lined up to sample such things as roast beaver, bar- wed antelope, bear basted in beer, and best ofall the porcupine. There were several kinds of gam e bird as well as salmon and trout. The feast would have been, lo my mind, 4 little better if there had been two or more serving tables so that things could have moved a little more quickly. Some wild vegetables fish and fowl. some strips > Shelford castigated and garnishes would have enhanced the meat, One of the guesis, MLA Cyril Shelford, tore off the city for game management. the bureaucrats office dwellers who are by : holders who have never been out of the con- ‘ungle and yet make nolicy decisions for crete june and work in the hinterlands. those. who.live ‘number of those. pubblies and giggliesa A resent were into the ndit was difficult to tell if Shelford was making an impassioned speech of just yelling to be heard over the talking and : laughing ims was, | believe, the second game banquet put on by the club and the turnout augured well for future events of the kind. With Saturday's experience to draw from, next year’s will undoubledly be organized so as to prevent the lineup and delay at getting down to sampling the savorias. The light side of the News BARTLESVILLE, = Okla, (AP) — Adults confused by inflation might take « lesson from a group of clementary studenta in Oklahoma. The students at St. John elementary school were asked recently to write about what inflation means to them. The survey was initiated by a Bartlesville firm, TRW Reda Purnp, fora company publicaljon. “] think inflation means that prices of things will go up,” reasoned fourth-grader Mike DeRacher. “Fer ia- stance: last year you could buy a hamster for one dollar—now §2.50."" “We are having trovhle with inflation,’ wrote Christianne van der Lee. “Like when you blow up a balloon it gets bigger and bigger,’ added Kathy Abeyta. "Once I went to one store: to buy a... model and it cost almost $2,"" wrote Joe Hromanik. Then i went to another store and it only cost 97 cents." And one earnest fourth- grader wrote: “Inflation is the atuff you put In your attic and in the wails. It keeps you warm in the winter and cool in the summer." NEW YORK (AP) — Comic book cdllectors gathered in Manhatlan during the weekend ta peruse tons of faded yellow paper etched with imaginary Foes Dubbed ‘‘Creation,’' organizers claimed about one million comic books and other comicart materials were on view during the three-day festival of colored comics at the Statler Hilton Hotel. Tickets io the show “were $6.50 and many of the iOcent banks sold in the hundreds of dollars. A 1934 drawing of Felix the Cat comld be bought for $150. Larry Shell of Irvington, NJ., purchased the original pen-andink drawing from another dealer several mo tts ago. “None, of your husiness,” he replied, when asked how much be was attempting to profit on the quick deal, Among other callectors’ itenis on display were Uncle Seruoge’s Rach to the Klondike, QDunaid Duck, Archie, the Katzenjammer Kids, Pick Tracy and the four action men ani one fascinating wornare -Supar, Spider, Bat, Bullet and Wonder. BUVPALO, Minn. (AP? Nursing home administrator John Thompson thinks some rules are made to be broken.- yThat’s why he schedules a pre-dinner cocktail party lJoieliness once or twice a week for “ 5 1 4 | i ' j j ! ( J GEORGETOWN (AP): + Socialist Guyana is the most closely controlled country in the Caribbean next to Cuba. . Sohow could American ~ cult: leader Jim Jones amass an arsenal at his remote agricultural commune, run ‘his own international com- munications. operations, use lhrec ocean-going vessels with 4 minimum of customs surveillance and often have hundreds of thousands of dollars in foreign currency in his posession? — These privileges are denied Guyanese citizens, and crilics of the government of Prin Minister Forbes Bur- nham, in the wake of the Jonestown mass suicides, are demanding answers in a developing scandal that one opposition news sheet labelled Tem- plegate. The critics charge that the Peoples Temple settlement in Guyana's northwestern jungle was mn “state within a state” and Jones was its em- peror, Government officials have made little com- ment. Few details of the shocking event have heen presented to the J wd - JONESTOWN TRAGEDY Guyanese through the 4 government-controlled *, Hows media, Pictures of { the bodies thal stunned s the world have not been shown here. But in i special parlia- mentary | session Friday dnd in the streets of the capital of Georgetown, unhappy: Guyanese are making , themselves heard, ! » Most comment centres on the special privileges the. Americans in Jonestown enjoyed, The government admits to giving the temple licences - for four, weapons but more than 40 were reported ito have been found at! the massacre site. Mot were semi- automatic rifles, which are forbidden to private citizens here, Armed; patrols of cultists often were visible at the entrance to Jonestown but the government apparently did nothiag about it. There . were other special privileges enjoyed by Jones's followers that were denied to Guyatiese citizens: | —The temple operated a redio-telephone link between headquarters in Georgetown, the Jonestown sethement and ow could it all happen the United States. —Customs supervision was superficial or waived on shipments entering Guyana for Jonestown and three ocean-golng vessels serviced the settlement, sailing 96 kilometres upriver to Port Kaituma and then sending the goods by road to the commune. ' ==Jones: was known to be holding hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and cheques at any one time, \defectors from the settlement say. Large sums of U.S, dolfars and other foreign currencies were } to have been found after the mass suicides. Guyana require stict supevision of foreign currency holdings. —The |‘ temple was allowed 30 minujes a week on Guyana National Radio to talk of the set- tlement’s activities. Jones often spoke during these sessiong = and regularly extolled the virtues of the govern- ment. | Critics say all op- position leaders are denied radic time in Gu- a. The government has declined detailed com- ment on these charges. It has said that when the commune was - established in 1974, set- ‘tlements in the virgin . forest were encouraged ‘ and the Americans met . the established rules. A government spokesman said letters of praise for Jones signed by many prominent Americans, including "U.S. President Carter's wife Rosalynn, Vice- . President Walter Mon- dale and others helped ‘ officials decide on Jones's _ application, But in 1974, : Mrs. Carter was not a national figure and Mondale was a senator. © pniogs nee th been otogral wi Burnham and other lead- ‘ing politieal figures in - Guyana, leading the ‘harshest critics to ‘ suggest a conspiracy of some kind, The extreme {leftist Working Peoples’ Alliance charged in a ‘pamphlet that farming , and religion at Jonestowa served as amask. The pamphlet said: “Guyanese find them- - selves ruled by a group of persons closely related to international criminais of | a very sinister breed who carry on their crimes _ behind the cover of social ‘concern and in the name of socialism.” JONESTOWN, Guyana (AP) -- Journals of human emotions hie tn the tains and mud and slineh of Hieless Jonestown, Lellers to Liac---itey, Jim Jones—found outside his collage after he and $11 of his Peovles Tunple cult followers died in a muss suiciie-murder, reveal the thoughts of these who lived and inet [heir deaths there. They are ledgers of sell- criticista and evaluntion, guilt, feelings of inadequacy and = ‘‘eonfessions'' — of weakness, They tell of troubled minds, broken herecs ond children who are raissed; of and sexttal feelings; of thoughls wen. - elderly residents at the ding homeward to the United Retirement Centre of Wright County. “They enjoyed a cocktail at bore once in nm while,” Thompson said. “Why not here? We don't try lo discipline their Jives,”” About a fourth of the home's 119 residents show up for the parties in the centre's all-purpose room, Beer, wine, mixed drinks and pop are served in regular glasses no plasiig cups-- and Staff members pass around chips and crackers. Al @ recent party, 100: yearcid Herman Ernst enjoyed a glass of wine while Ann Witlrup, 79, stuck to a plain seft drink. States, of suicidal impulses, fears and loyalties. Seme are rambling and disjointed, Sune make unex- plained references to tor- ture, short rations, the giving away of children and class distiictions = in Joneslown, a seltlement billed as a socialist ulopla hacked from the remute jungles of northwest Guyana. Ina letter dated Nov. 7, 11 days befor¢ the deaths, a woman lellg of what turned out to be a limniled suicide rehearsal of drinking what she thought was cyanide- FOUND AT SCENE Some answers in letters laced fruit drink. The drill was called by Jones a few months earlier as a loyalty test. She wrote: “A few ‘months back, the time we drank the Kool-Aid, I thought it was real. (Her son) stood very close to me squeezing my hand tight and never saying anything. I raver said anything to him about my being scared to fight. Hut be probably knows. Whal can I say? I'm sorry.” When she arrived at Jonestown neatly @ year ago, she wrote: “T used lo think about the States all the time. I wanted to fo back, Now T see how imporlant the structure is and I'm dealing with it. I don’t want to go back now or over, ; “T have a very low opinion af myself..] think my brain suffered damage from not huving the right kind of food as a child. You mentioned something about that one time and I think it applies to ims, “It's hard for me to write this. I have had a hard time passing lasts. My brain feels picked. I worry about it so 1 get resentful, My son got the highest score in the junior high 1Q lest they gave him, is doing tlh-grade work ahd is oniy 13, [fe sure doesn’t take after me. Lhave you to thank for that. "] also think I'm a traitor, not a revolutionary because I'm afraid of fighting because I'm sure ] will just get shot and not dic, cap tured then: tortured. That's what I'm afraid of, *] eouldn’t stand to see the children tortured, I still think of mine first. I aroed watch my baby drop from a window, I'd probably fall apart. I can’t be trusted. That’s why I always vote for revolutionary suicide. “T don't ever want to go back and will stay here and die for this great cause if necessary,” Another woman wrote this sell-criticism at Jones’s re- quest: : “When 1 got here I really hated working in the fields in the hot sun and sometimes gelting soaked from the rain. When [ put in for a job change it was denied although it ‘was explained to me why. Since then I have not pul in for a job change because I've adjusted to the field work and enjoy being out in the open. I'm too passive to complain too much about conditlons. “E feel ‘guilty because some of the children had come without their parent or parents and they do not complain about as we adults do. | a "T have a desire 49 spea out about the injustice of the op ed people around the world, but if I had to go any place it would be back to the States to fight in thestreets if necessary for the freedom of black people and would Bladly die. Dad, I donot want my living to be in vain. “The thing that I do like ‘here is there is no drugs or :crime. : “The last thing that ‘dislike is that I pass by the ‘kitchen during dinner time ‘and see people with a fice ‘plate. Then when the field ‘workers get in line there is a ‘limit, meaning a teaspoon of ‘vegetables and maybe two ‘spoons of rice.” | : Another woman wrote: : “Turmoil inside these last few years. And felt 1 should just express it to get it out. I stayed away from him as I did not want to interfere in . his life. 1 still think you are the best parent for him. ; “am not sorry I gave him to you at all and would doit ail over again, but this did cause me some worry. ‘ “T will never leave you until I breathe my last breath and will work on becoming a better person.” i A woman talked of a “orisis" after arriving in Jonestown. ' “During that first crisis, I said, ‘I'll never see my brothers and sisters again or my mother.’ I was really saying I'm not ready to die et “Tt was not that 1 was seared, ] was not willing to take a responsibility to do something good for once. I was not thinking about Dad, 1 was thinking of self, something that don’t mean anything,”’ OTTAWA OFFBEAT BY RICHARD JACKSON Ottawa, ~ If everything is fair in love, war amd politics, then the shaken Liberals are breaking no rules in the great | game of _elec- tioneering. The Liberals are shaken - by losing ten of those recent 15 byelections -- but being a cool and calculating crowd are by ho means in a panic. They're so accustomed to power, taking it only as their national right and due, that _ any threat to the continuity of their supremacy serves only to sharpen their politica] wits. . They know they are safe 48 long as they can protect, a5 & Liberal preserve, their Quebec'power base. Give :them their almost invariable monopoly of. Quebec ‘seats - this time 75, Jess perhaps one or two — in the newly distributed Commons of 22 con- stituencies, and they-re _ away toa flying start in the race for votes. Only ence in the last 46 or so years has their copyright on a rock-solid Quebec vote been breached. That ‘was back in the Conservative national landslide of that record 28 seats when Prime Minister Conservatives lost all but 14 in the next election, and then power a year later when they were cut back to eight Quebec seats. So Quebec, like it or not in the rest of Canada, is the key to power. And this time, in the coming Spring election, as always, the basic Liberal strategy is the protection and preservation of the key 75 seats in Quebec. Start with thoae, and build to a majority - or even a minority, if nothing more solid can be put together - by scraping enough geats here and there across English Canada’ to make it once more, As usual, But this time, the shaken People bul determined Liberals are taking it a lang step further. They're making it your patriotic duty to yate Liberal. . They’re saying - and they're being echoed by Liberal-leaning com- mentators in the Eastern ~ Media Elite, the gurus of Ottawa, Toronto and Mon- treal — that it would be un: thinkable for the election to divide Canada along Linguistic boundaries. They even say it would play into the hands of Quebec separaitsts. So while you know that unless Conservative Leader Joe Clark works a miracle and breaks into Quebec, that province traditionally will go Liberal. Again. And to hold the country together -- to prove to Quebec there is not intention to even accidentally isolate them politically - you in English Canada must vote with them. The Liberals always know when they’ve got a good thing going and how to push it to the very limit. So they’re using the same scare tactics to try saving Prime Minser Trudeau's hide along with the party's power. Just think, they tut-tut, what Quebec will say if English Canada repudiates Pierre, a French-Canadian. Quebec will be saying - with prompting from the separtists -- warn the Liberals, that the English turned out Pierre becawe he was French. Doesn't matter that he has had English support through three earlier elections and that Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent, among other national leaders, was a French Canadian. It only matters that the English again vole Trudeau - - for the sake of Con- federation — to make Quebec feel wanted, Unfair, unfair, But that’s the way the Liberals always play — for real and for keeps. in the news VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope John Paul, addressing about 60,000 people at St. Peter's Square on Sunday, praised priests who defend truth and justice, but said the Roman Catholic Church is not tied to any political regime. “The church is in no way mixed up with the political community,” the 58-year-old mtiff said in his noon lessing: ‘It's not linked to any political system." But, he added, his thoughts go to “‘those brothers who are tried and. perhaps con- demned to die—if not physically, from a viewpoint of civil rights—because they exercise their faith, because they are faithful to truth, because they defend jus- (a Vatican observers said the Pope,, noted for opposing religious restrictions in his native Poland, probably had Commuaist regimes Eastern Europe in mind. + STILLWATER, Minn. (AP) — Guthrie Theatre actor Patrick Clear gays it was the toughest audience he ever faced—275 convicts at Minnesota’s Stillwater Prison who thinned to 69 be- fore the Shakespeare was over, Clear told the prisoners Friday the red tights and skirt-like outfit he was wearing were ''the jeans and T-shirts of the 16th century.” “You don't have to ex- plain, honey,” yelled one convict. - Actress Barbara Hyslop got a big reaction—but it focused mainly on her legs, her gown and the screen behind which she changed. The bit from Romeo and Juliet got a boost when a burly prisoner walked across the auditorium and ordered a group to “‘shaddup.” Those who stayed loudly applauded Clear for a scene from Hamlet, and a young man wished Miss Hyslop well by making 4 long sweeping bow and kissing her hand. Still, one prisoner who left during a scene from As You Like lt said: “What 1 think is that they need more music, maybe, you know, country- westerm.’’ All in all, Clear said: "That was the toughest crowd we've ever had. The ones that were left at the end were good. ‘But at the start, in the middle, whew.” ey MOSCOW (AP) — Once again, ailing infant Jessica Katz and her parents have a ticket to leaye the Soviet Union for medical treatment in the United States—this time with Jessica's new baby sister, whose birth delayed their departure. Boris Katz said Sunday that he: his wife, Natalia, and their two daughters would Jeave Wednesday for Vienna, then Massachusetts, after a week's delay. - of — A year ago, the Katzes ap- plied for an exit visa to seek medical treatment for Jessica, who suffers from malabsorption eaigest and cannot properly digest her food, They received exit per- mission this month and were scheduled to leave last week, when Natalia gave birth to her second child—whose name willbe either Gabrielle or Gabriella, Katz said Sunday, The birth of their second daughter, which they had hoped would be delayed, meant that the Katzes had to re-enter the Soviet bureaucratic maze to gain exit permission for her. Hye USSEL, France (AP) -- Jacques Chirac, mayor of Paris and leader of the Gaulllst party, suffered a broken leg early Sunday when a car in which he was being driven skidded during 4 snowfall and crashed into a tree. The driver suffered minor injuries, Ussel Hospital said Chirac, 46, wauld be flown to Paris for an operation.